Michael Mandelbaum talks with Jim Fleming about the similarities between sports and warfare and religion.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jane Fonda tells Steve Paulson that she learned to hate her body while she was still a child and developed an eating disorder that continued for years.
Literary critics have deemed Laura van den Berg one of American's best new writers. Listen in as she talks about the roles of memory and forgetting in our lives, and in her debut novel, "Find Me."
Robert Fischell developed several implantable medical devices credited with saving tens of thousands of lives on Earth.
Journalist Ken Wiwa tells Steve Paulson about his father's protest against the influence of oil money in Nigeria, and what it was like to grow up in his dominating presence.
Theologian Martin Marty tells Steve Paulson that The Rapture is a fairly recent concept and can't be found in the Bible.
Mimi Sheraton, a travel writer, went to the Polish town of Bialystock to find the origins of her favorite bread from childhood, the bialy. It’s a crusty onion roll invented by the Jews.
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